{"product_id":"the-response-of-weeds-bertrand-bickersteth-9781988732794","title":"The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of a 2021 High Plains Book Award for First Book!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2020 CBC Poetry Book of the Year!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for a 2021 High Plains Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. \u003ci\u003eThe Response of Weeds\u003c\/i\u003e offers a much-needed window on often overlooked contributions to the province's character and provides personal perspectives on the question of black identity on the prairies. Through these rousing and evocative poems, Bickersteth uses language to call up the contours of the land itself, land that is at once mesmerizing as it is dismissively effacing. Such is black identity here on this paradoxical land, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bertrand Bickersteth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1988732794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781988732794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e NeWest Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Bertrand Bickersteth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043011424511,"sku":"9781988732794","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e371c43-33e7-413e-8e6b-6f52d7131593.jpg?v=1684964774","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-response-of-weeds-bertrand-bickersteth-9781988732794","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}